Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . he whole of her crew were eitherkilled or wounded; her guns, too, weredismounted,—the commodore and his offi-cers personally working the last that wascapable of service, assisted by the fewh
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Our first century: being a popular descriptive portraiture of the one hundred great and memorable events of perpetual interest in the history of our country, political, military, mechanical, social, scientific and commercial: embracing also delineations of all the great historic characters celebrated in the annals of the republic; men of heroism, statesmanship, genius, oratory, adventure and philanthropy . he whole of her crew were eitherkilled or wounded; her guns, too, weredismounted, —the commodore and his offi-cers personally working the last that wascapable of service, assisted by the fewhands j-et remaining capable of duty.According to the account given by Dr.Parsons, the surgeon of the Lawrence, themuscular material was reduced to its abso-lute minimum. When the battle hadraged an hour and a half, says Dr. Par-sons, I heard a call for me at the smallskylight, and, stepping toward it, I saw itwas the commodore, whose countenancewas calm and placid as if on ordinaryduty. Doctor, said he, send me one ofyour men, —meaning one of the six thatwere to assist me; which was done in-stantly. In five minutes the call wasrepeated and obeyed; and at the seventhcall, I told him he had them all. Heasked if any could pull a rope, when twoor three of the wounded crawled upon deckto lend a feeble hand in pulling at the lastguns. So close and desperate was this 238 OUR FIRST CENTURY.—1776-1876.. conflict; so brare and courageousthe lieart.s of those w)io fuuglit fortlie honor and rights of America. It was two oclock, and CaptainElliott, of the Niagara, wasenabled by the aid of a freshbreeze to bring his ship intoclose action in gallant style.Finding, now, that no resistanceor liostility on the part of theLawrence could be profitably* pei^sisted in. Perry suddenly formedthe determination to shift his flagto Elliotts ship; and, leaving hisown vessel in charge of herlieutenant, the brave and gallantYarnall, he hauled down hisunion-jack, and, taking it underhis arm, ordered a b